hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I'm gonna give you a tip on
this old redwood laughs now this old redwood lath is keyed and you see a lot of this stuff in the
early 1900s in fact in Alameda they got the gold to coast most of the houses were done using this
and in the Oakland Hills from California so I know these areas Oakland Hills a lot of them have this
old laughs here I'm sure many parts of the country also have it now what this this is is you put your
felt behind it then you put your sheets on it comes by two by eight sheets or four by eight
sheets and again this way before my time because it's early 1900s where they used to use this what
I'm going to show you guys is how we tie it in because I do get a lot of emails because of our
YouTube channel and people say hey I got that old wood and they describe it and I say you're
talking about an old redwood which is the laughte it has a tongue and groove type of style which is
actually a key for stuff what you do a scratch coat at keys in these grooves then you do your
second coat we've got kind of an odd thing here it's a sliding glass door in the middle of a wall
and he got the plywood here and he's got the red wood stucco laughs now all I did was I put
some straight flash here where we have a belly band because I can use paper here and caulk it I
could use metal too and notice here - he's got his electrical box out flush with this real important
guys I'll show you how I take care of this right here where we tie it in because I have had several
inspectors asked me Kirk how do you tie that in in fact about a month ago I had one call myself
song well I know we're oh well he said take Kirk how do you tie that in I'm inspecting one I don't
even know if it's right or wrong anyway this is what we do guys you look for an area oh by the
way - okay I've spent a little bit of time and got all the slobbers out of here the stucco then
you wire brush it wire brush it why because we're gonna caulk it does caulking stick to dust no and
we get it all out of here a lot of times if I have the compressor hooked up I'll just hit it with air
but if you hit it with air guess what it's all over the place and you're breathing a crap in
here's another technique guys now looking over here instead of hitting it with air hit it was
water see that hit it with water and get all the dust off that way the stucco adheres real well to
it anyway just thought I'd point that out guys because I hate breathing in stucco towards the
dust of it alright getting back to what I was getting at okay we're gonna go down here we're
gonna try to make us straight a line as possible I'm gonna tack this in let me get both of these
layers on here okay this is two ply paper and this is how you do it guys put a couple staples
a couple staples here they'll hold it in place and now what we're gonna do is I'm gonna take
my knife tuck this into this key we also have a key on right on this side where the trim is
and cut it again always best to have a sharp knife guys got a dull blade we'll do that anyhow we get
this side in there just like that and put a couple staples to hold it in place guess what electrical
box that's how we find them sometimes it's not the electrical box out okay once we got that
done what we're gonna do here's the whole key to what I'm trying to explain here guys now you know
you can't just use any caulking because caulking is not what we're looking for we're looking for
a sealing something that will seal this paper to this wood here and again if it's dusty guys it's
not going to adhere so or take some of this nasty Sikaflex you get it on you man this stuff you need
thinner to get it off or denatured alcohol okay this is not the easiest stuff to work with but
it does the job what we want to do is I'm gonna seal the paper then I'm gonna fill these grooves
they like all that's stucco I took out now I'm gonna fill that groove and we just keep doing that
we fill that groove all the way down and this is remember it's not just a caulking it's an adhesive
so it's it will adhere the paper infuse it to this wood by the time the inspector gets here tomorrow
or Monday whenever he shows up this will be tight it'll be hard hard as a rock you wouldn't be able
to take this off and this is what you want this is what waterproofs the old redwood - the newer
plywood's so they're being said we do it just like so all the way down and again when we have a box
like this we want to fuse the box electrical box also to the paper and not just any old caulking
will do it's got to be an adhesive caulking I'm kind of partial to this stick of black stuff
because it works over here where we already have a flashing in here we talked that also guys a lot
of caulking in here when you're tying in this old stuff you use a hell of a lot of caulking this by
the time I'm done with this and that they're all used maybe six tubes of this stuff but caulking
is pretty cheap compared to a leak and even though this is one of the most expensive coffees anyhow
guys that is how you tie the two in clear out your grout make sure it's dust free otherwise
no caulking will adhere to it hope you guys learn something my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano
plastering ,Jason and I thank you for watching and as you as you all see you guys on the next one
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